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20 Cards in this Set
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Patient Privacy and Confidentiality |
protection of private patient information |
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
define what information can be released and to whom |
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Transmissions of Diseases |
Righ of healthcare providers to protect themselves patient history is not provided to the medical staff |
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Relationships |
Sexual realtionships strictly forbidden |
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End of Life Issues |
Terminally ill patient’s special wishes “living will” |
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Elderly Patients |
not capable of making rational decisions “Living Will” |
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Aggressive Marketing practices |
marketing campaing is truthful sincere and not misleading patient care, not market schemes |
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Living Will |
written document that allows a patient to give explicit instructions in advance about medical treatment to be administerred when they can’t consent associated with passive euthany |
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Euthanasia Legal and Ethical |
Legal and Ethical only on passive and indirect |
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Passive Euthanasia |
withdrawal or withholding medical interventions |
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Indirect Euthanasia |
Increasing narcotics to ease a patient’s pain even if this has consequence of hastening the patient’s death |
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Euthanasia Considered Unethical |
Voluntary/Active - with patients consent Involuntary - only guardian’s consent |
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Physician-assisted suicide vs euthanasia |
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Voluntary Active Euthanasia |
with the patients informed consent |
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Involuntary active euthanasia |
patient was competent to consent but did not patient may not have asked |
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Nonvoluntary active euthanasia |
patient was incompetent and was mentally incapable of consenting patient may be in a coma |
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Passive Euthanasia |
terminating life sustaining medical treatments |
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Indirect euthanasia |
causing suffecient respiratory depression to result in patient’s death |
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Physician Assisted SuicideL |
a physician provides medication to a patient with understanding that the patient can use them to suicide |
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Legality of euthanasia |
Not allowed in : Philippines Alaska, USA, China, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Britain |
